September, 2016

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What Golden Nuggets of Information Are You Missing Out On and Why?

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Few events in world history compare to the excitement surrounding the discovery of California gold by James Marshall, in January of 1848. The famous discovery set off one of the most important migrations ever known. One of the largest gold chunks discovered at that time was by an indigent miner named Mr. Strain who in 1851 stumbled across a 50-pound nugget.

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5 Reasons Customer Satisfaction Metrics Still Matter

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Happy customers become the repeat buyers who keep your business alive. Here are 5 reasons you should constantly monitor your customer satisfaction metrics.

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Temkin Group’s (Exciting) Plans For CX Day 2016

Experience Matters

Last year, Temkin Group had a great time celebrating CX Day. This year, CX Day will be held on October 5th and we’re planning another exciting celebration. Temkin Group has labelled 2016 The Year of the Emotion for customer experience. As you’ll see below, we’re continuing that theme in our CX Day plans: Thought leadership video: Bruce will interview renowned author and thought […].

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3 Reasons to Focus on Your Weakest Customer Service Channel

NICE inContact

“You are only as good as your weakest channel.” – Nancy Jamison, Principal Analyst, Frost & Sullivan. This is one of our favorite quotes from a leading analyst in the contact center space. If you know Nancy, you may have heard her say it yourself. It speaks to the changing customer landscape and the importance of staying up-to-date on what technology customers actually want to use – not the technology you think they want to use.

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Manual Call Reviews? There's a Better Way!

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 If so, this webinar is for you! What was once a common practice in the call center is now a barrier to success. Manual call monitoring is no longer an option if you want to proactively coach your agents to ultimately improve the customer experience using data-driven insights. Join this webinar with Angie Kronlage and April Wiita of Working Solutions to discuss how you can modernize outdated, manual call review processes through the power of autom

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How to really do strategic management in CX

Customer Bliss

I wanted to talk for a quick second about strategic management in customer experience. If you’ve been listening to my podcast — and the next episode is No. 20, which is crazy — you’ve probably heard many CCOs and other senior customer experience leaders talk about strategic management. I’ve been blessed to have some great guests who really “get” it, but over the years I’ve obviously also encountered people that miss the concept of strategic managem

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What Golden Nuggets of Information Are You Missing Out On and Why?

InMoment XI

Few events in world history compare to the excitement surrounding the discovery of California gold by James Marshall, in January of 1848. The famous discovery set off one of the most important migrations ever known. One of the largest gold chunks discovered at that time was by an indigent miner named Mr. Strain who in 1851 stumbled across a 50-pound nugget.

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Why We Changed the Way We Run CSAT Surveys

GetFeedback

When we (a survey company) discovered the flaws in our first CSAT surveys, we set out to find a reliable formula for measuring customer satisfaction.

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The New Paid PAID Vacation

Storyminers

Employee experiences are just as important as customer experiences. In fact, if your employees aren’t ready to deliver the kind of experience your brand promises, your customers won’t get the kind of experience they desire. On the today show this morning, I was delighted by a new segment that talked about paid paid vacations. You can view the segment for yourself HERE.

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How to Boost Customer Retention with Unified Customer Support

Kayako

When you give your customers exceptional support, they are 4 times more likely to reward you with their loyalty. But what does exceptional support look like in 2016? You could use a helpdesk. But the truth is, helpdesks aren’t that helpful. Why? Because helpdesks encourage your staff to see customers as faceless support tickets. . But customers are people, just like you and me.

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The Pragmatic Path to Composability: Creating Efficient Commerce Systems

Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Brian Walker

Brands used to look for a commerce platform that could do everything. But over time, one vendor was no longer enough to meet a brand’s needs, so they added, and added, and added— and now it's essential that these vendors work well together. That’s composable, and it’s important to get it right. Customers and your board expect you to be in new channels and to adapt quickly to market change.

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Why Have We Stopped Listening to Our Customers? Guest post by Stephen Hewett

ijgolding

Although I have spent a long time working with clients in the customer experience sector, I think it’s vital that we continually challenge the way we listen to and understand our customers. Over the last few decades, as the power of the computer has increased and we can gather more and more data about customers, often without their knowing, we have become more seduced by numbers rather than words.

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Customer Emotions (Joy, Anger, Sadness, and Fear) Affect Contact Center Interactions

Experience Matters

As you may know, Temkin Group labeled 2016 “The Year of Emotion” in its annual listing of customer experience trends. Why? Because emotion drives loyalty. And yet, despite its significant impact on customer loyalty, organizations do not focus on emotion enough. So to help increase organizations’ awareness of this critical area of customer experience, we […].

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Daisy, Daisy…

InMoment XI

For some reason, the song “Daisy, Daisy” popped in to my head the other day. The song is actually called “Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)”, according to Wikipedia. This song always had a slightly sad/sinister undertones for me, ever since I saw the wonderful but weird film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the film, View Article.

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6 Satisfaction Surveys Every Company Should Send

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Customer satisfaction surveys reveal customer preferences, top reasons for churn, and opportunities to improve processes company-wide.

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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.

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Customer Journey Mapping workshop in November!

Kerry Bodine

Join us for a hands-on customer journey mapping workshop in the heart of San Francisco! I’m thrilled to announce our next open enrollment workshop: November 2, 9:00 – 5:00 & networking cocktails. November 3, 9:00 – 4:30. Whether you’re just getting started with customer journey mapping or looking for a methodology refresh, our two-day interactive workshop will help you develop the skills and know-how you need to effectively employ journey mapping within your organization.

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Empower Your Team With A Customer Service Philosophy

Kayako

Customer service is incredibly important to any business. So important, even, that by 2020, it’s projected that customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator. So it’s safe to say that customer service is important. But how do you ensure your brand delivers happiness like some of the industry’s leading lights such as Zappo’s and Buffer?

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Voice of the Employee (VOE) – Would you give your employees a seat at the board table?

ijgolding

I have been in the world of work since 1995. Akin to bringing up children, it is quite amazing how time flies!! When I left University all those years ago, I had little idea where my path of employment was going to take me. Today, as the master of my own destiny (a business owner), I often look back at my years as an employee with a real mixture of emotions.

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Data Snapshot: Channel Preferences Benchmark, 2016

Experience Matters

We just published a Temkin Group data snapshot, Channel Preferences and Cross-Channel Activity Benchmark, 2016. The research examines consumer preferences for using different channels for completing common tasks as well as the frequency of several cross-channel interactions. Here’s the executive summary: In Q3 2016, we surveyed 10,000 U.S. consumers about their channel preferences for performing 11 different […].

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Daisy, Daisy…

InMoment XI

For some reason, the song “Daisy, Daisy” popped in to my head the other day. The song is actually called “Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)”, according to Wikipedia. This song always had a slightly sad/sinister undertones for me, ever since I saw the wonderful but weird film, 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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Why We Changed the Way We Run CSAT Surveys

GetFeedback

When we (a survey company) discovered the flaws in our first CSAT surveys, we set out to find a reliable formula for measuring customer satisfaction.

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Customer Journey Mapping workshop in November!

Kerry Bodine

Join us for a hands-on customer journey mapping workshop in the heart of San Francisco! I’m thrilled to announce our next open enrollment workshop: November 2, 9:00 – 5:00 & networking cocktails. November 3, 9:00 – 4:30. Whether you’re just getting started with customer journey mapping or looking for a methodology refresh, our two-day interactive workshop will help you develop the skills and know-how you need to effectively employ journey mapping within your organization.

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How Working Split Shifts Builds Closer Global Relationships

Kayako

How many times have you finished off the last bite of your lunch and wished that there was either more food, or you had more time to spend? For people in support, the emotional implications of our work can carry through even when we are not on the clock—for some of us, that may show up as checking our phones right before bed for CSAT scores, for others, it may be overthinking how we could have made a support interaction better while finishing up the last scraps of leftover macaroni and cheese.

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The Verint Experience Index: Retail

Reports of the death of in-store shopping have been greatly exaggerated. This year’s retail survey found that more than 60 percent of consumers start and end their journey by visiting a store. Retail customers value price above everything, but the importance of other factors varies for different brands. In-store shopping is valued highly by grocery and home improvement customers Technology retail customers place less importance on in-store experiences – for them it only ranks sixth Digital exper

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For Customer Experience Success, Avoid Putting Square Pegs in Round Holes

ijgolding

The sixteenth article for my column on Customer Think sees me create the longest title of the lot! During my career, every time I have had to endure…. I mean enjoy the pleasure of a job interview, I have always wondered just who should be interviewing who! Whilst most companies would make me feel that it was I who had everything to prove, I always believed that the company doing the recruiting needed to expend just as much time convincing me.

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Wells Fargo: A Lesson in Leadership & Culture Gone Awry

Experience Matters

In case you missed this in the news, Wells Fargo is under investigation for opening fraudulent accounts for its customers. During a period between 2011 and 2015, it is estimated that there were as many as 1.5 million deposit accounts and more than half a million credit card accounts opened inappropriately on behalf of customers. As part […].

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5 Ways to Guard Against Survey Manipulation

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I’ve been in the automotive industry for some time and concerns about dealership attempts to interfere with the customer satisfaction measurement process have been around for a long time as well, but lately they seem to be intensifying. Do you know how to guard against survey manipulation? My hope is this blog will give you.

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10 Simple Ways to Increase Customer Satisfaction

GetFeedback

Countless interactions make up the customer experience. Companies can use customer satisfaction surveys to start capturing those moments.

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The State of Customer Onboarding 2024

Building lasting customer relationships has always been top-of-mind for businesses. However, in the last decade, organizations have recognized that the customer journey beyond the initial sale is as critical as the sale itself. Customer onboarding, or the customer’s first impression of you, is critical to forging lasting relationships and long-term success.

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Are you serving your customers or smothering them?

Vonage

The customer/company relationship is just that, a relationship. It’s one that is difficult to maintain and carries high expectations. On one hand, customers want to feel that they have a close, unique, real relationship with your brand. While on the other, they want to hold onto their independence and avoid feeling smothered. When a customer calls, they’re most often looking for help and want the quickest resolution to their problem with as little friction as possible.

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What is the Most Important Contact Center Metric?

Heart of the Customer

I presented at the ICMI CC Expo last month in Long Beach. It’s always a great conference, and I look forward to it each year. In the afternoon after my journey mapping workshop I attended a Justin Robbin’s session on metrics. Justin began by asking attendees the most important metric they tracked. Think about it […]. The post What is the Most Important Contact Center Metric?

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The importance of EARNING authority as a Customer Experience Professional

ijgolding

During my career as a Customer Experience Professional, my opinions, points of views and suggestions have been rebuffed on many an occasion. I have been accused of being lots of things over those years – from being ‘emotionally immature’, to ‘ignorant’, to perhaps the most humiliating of all – ‘insignificant’! At the time, the branding of me and my profession in this way was very hard to take.